Nice. Need to do more often!

I had a very nice visit with my sister at my house last week. We sat at the kitchen table for 6 hours (!) talking, drinking coffee, telling stories, eating pizza, solving the world problems, drinking more coffee and just generally enjoying each other's company.

Aren't we cute! This pic is from a 2010 Nov trip to Molbak's with Jocelyn and Aunt B.

We setup a game of Rummikub (a long-time favorite game of ours to play together). Each of us drew some tiles but we got distracted by our talking and when it came time for her to leave we cleaned up the game without ever having laid a tile down!

Daniel walked through the kitchen once with a quick hello and then back to his bedroom with a snack. James walked through once with a quick hello and then out the door to his dentist appointment. The dogs went in and out, in and out, in and out and then can you guess what they did? Yup, they went in and out again ;) We had lots of time just for ourselves; that is rare.

We are making a date for next week to go fireplace shopping. One of the many subjects we covered during our 6 hour conversation was getting the fireplaces and electric taken care of at the beach before mom and daddy return - if we don't put the dates in ink on our calendars time will fly by, mom and daddy will return and we will have accomplished nada. That would be a bad thing. Very bad indeed.

At first glance this looks like an inviting fire in a cozy room...look again :)

I have to remember to take pictures of our road trip to the fireplace store. I should have taken a pic of her sitting at my kitchen table. Remember Kathleen, that is what you said you wanted to do in 2011. Creating new habits is hard!